Beyond the door of no return
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2023.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 243 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374606770 0374606773 |
| Author Notes: | David Diop is the author of At Night All Blood Is Black , which was awarded the International Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Born in Paris and raised in Senegal, he is a professor of literature at the University of Pau, where his research encompasses topics including eighteenth-century French literature and European representations of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
